Yes, I too am looking forward to it... very happy to have learned it'll work with my existing TiVo Stream and TiVo Premiere. (Not entirely interested in upgrading to a Roamio at this time.) I hope it handles adaptive bitrate streaming well, so it works adequately in remote locations with not-so-fast internet speeds. Hopefully the Stream's hardware can handle that transcoding (?) The Slingbox already does this well.

What the Stream has over the Slingbox is tighter UI integration with native controls. The Slingbox uses IR blasters to control your settop box, and adds on a "virtual" remote widget on your handheld/laptop screen to control it all... the end result is a bit laggy and sometimes feels like a kludge. TiVo's implementation, while it's taken far too many years to get here, strikes me as more elegant, integrated and reliable. Let's hope this comes to pass, in reality, and is as usable as I'm hoping it will be.

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However, the new DVRs don’t provide TV Everywhere in all cases: The streaming feature is restricted based on flags set by programmers. According to TiVo, not all content can be streamed out of home and some programming may only be streamed while a mobile device is on the same local Wi-Fi network as the subscriber’s DVR.

I mean, I knew that downloading wouldn't work for all content (damn CCI flag) but I thought streaming was a "solution" for that. At least it has been that way within then home when sharing content between two TiVos (and streaming to an iPad.) I did not expect that streaming would be further restricted and that some content wouldn't be allowed to be streamed outside the home. I guess I should never make assumptions when it comes to TiVo, they always seems to come up with new and novel ways to disappoint me. Yes, I understand they're under legal pressure to keep this secure and appease the broadcasters. Doesn't make me any less disappointed, though.

So in this regard, Slingbox is better. It lets you stream anything, anywhere. No downloading though. Sounds like Dish's Hopper product can also do both (and why they're always being legally challenged by the broadcasters.) I am not sure how DirecTV's Genie product handles this.

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So in this regard, Slingbox is better. It lets you stream anything, anywhere. No downloading though. Sounds like Dish's Hopper product can also do both (and why they're always being legally challenged by the broadcasters.) I am not sure how DirecTV's Genie product handles this.

Though, to be honest, Slingbox is affected by copy protection just the same. I was watching a CNET video on Slingbox (from early this year, that I still had on my iPad), and they mentioned that while you can hook up HDMI to the slingbox, even sling recommends you ALSO connect component, BECAUSE OF COPY PROTECTION ISSUES.

So this is very very close to being the same thing.. You're essentially just hitting the analog hole with component.

Slingbox 500 with HDMI is worthless IMO. What makes Sling great is ability to exploit the analog hole using component. I was very glad to see Roamios released with analog outputs still. A day will come when analog outputs on these boxes will be gone, though at that point probably HDMI/component adapters could be used to work around the HDCP nonsense.

I'm still looking for clarification on what (if any) restrictions will be placed on out-of-home streaming when it is finally enabled.

If a show can be streamed from one TiVo to another in my home, why wouldn't it be able to be streamed to my iPad out-of-home?

HBO shows have the most restrictive CCI byte, but I can stream these shows to another TiVo in my home. Will I be able to stream this same HBO show to my iPad when I am outside my home?

If TiVo restricts streaming out-of-home similar to the prohibitions put in place for copying from one TiVo to another (CCI flag), the OOH streaming function would be better served with a Slingbox, IMO.

We don't know yet. The only indication we have that there will be restrictions at all is the early reviews of the Roamio that had mentions of the out of home streaming. Unless TiVo releases more info (unlikely) we'll have to wait until it's released and see how it goes.

The big difference here between TiVo Stream and Slingbox is that TiVo has to play nice with CableLabs because they are doing a pure digital transfer. Slingbox is exploiting the "analog hole" so they aren't restricted.

We had one reviewer that mentioned protected channels - that is where the concern comes from. I also agree that honoring the CCI byte for external streaming doesn't make any sense - but until 7am tomorrow we just won't know.

Very cool... 2 notes... as someone else noted only wi-fi is supported. Apparently LTE to come later. Premium channels will not stream out of house.
Now, as the only iDevices my wife and I own are phones and pods, no pads, I'm waiting for a PC browser function.